DavenportOne celebrated its first year in business last week, emphasizing a theme that it is not just for the city’s big businesses and their leaders.
At its annual meeting July 11 – attended by nearly 300 members – the organization rolled out a new Web site (http://www.

At a study session on Monday, July 9, Rock Island City Administrator John C. Phillips gave city-council members a “police-chief profile” culled from surveys filled out by citizens, community leaders, and police officers.

Despite the setback of having developer Kaizen Company of America pull out of the commercial portion of The Quarter riverfront re-development effort (see City Shorts in this week’s issue), the City of East Moline could be moving forward on other components of the project in the coming weeks.

The unanimous choice of the search committee and mayor for Davenport’s
new city administrator appears to be well on his way to city-council confir
mation next week.
Craig Malin, currently the county administrator in Douglas County, Wisconsin, has wide support among Davenport city-council members surveyed by the River Cities’ Reader.

When the City of Moline requested developers in 1999 for
its mixed-used riverfront project known as Bass Street
Landing, it didn’t get any responses that met its requirements – primarily that applicants have experience developing and operating a similar project.